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r/LocalLLaMA ·2h ago

User reports ASCII pruning of gguf files reduces Qwen3.8 27B gguf by about 0.6GB and asks whether there is a negative impact.

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I tried https://github.com/bsaleh03/ASCII-Condensed-prune-tools and it reduces Qwen3.8 27B gguf by about 0.6GB. I am wondering if anyone has seen a negative impact with doing so? submitted by /u/Fancy-Snow7 ...

Original headline: "Has anyone seen a negative impact with ASCII pruning a gguf?"

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